Jeff Bezos is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive.
Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and Ben Porterfield.
Three-time founder Andrew Berman is back with a startup that helps IT ensure business users’ AI agents operate securely.
The service is rolling out “Deep Research,” a tool that will automate and simplify complex online research.
“SIMA 2 is a more general agent. It can complete complex tasks in previously unseen environments. And it’s a self-improving agent… which is a step toward more genera- purpose robots and AGI systems more generally.”
LinkedIn’s AI-powered people search is rolling out to premium users in the U.S.
Bindwell applies AI drug discovery techniques to invent new pesticide molecules.
Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout, and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.
Cursor plans to use the capital to continue developing Composer, the AI model the vibe-coding startup released in October.
Marc Manara, OpenAI’s head of startups, says the reality of AI has advanced far beyond ideas and experiments. AI-native companies are hitting $200 million in annual recurring revenue, and product cycles have shrunk from two-week sprints to single days. And OpenAI is helping. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Russell Brandom sits down with Manara at… Continua a leggere What startups want from OpenAI
